You're proving my point.
It's not physics, it's ethics.
I am putting it in context.
The context is not a literal burning of planet earth, and then the creation of a new planet earth.
The context is the doing away with the temple and the OC, and the full implementation of the NC.
I'm not saying a word "always" means the same thing. For example the word "sea" ,many times literally means a sea, but other times means Gentiles.
I showed that the word "elements" is only used 4 times in the KJV, and each time the word DOES mean the same thing.
Because you are a dispensationalist, you will disagree because you need "elements" to mean the physical elements that make up the planet in order for your dispensationalism to work out.
Nope....I don't 'need' it to mean anything. It's 'what it means' that matters to me:
στοιχεῖον
stoicheíon; gen. stoicheíou, neut. noun, a diminutive stoíchos (n.f.), row. Always in the pl., tá stoicheía, the basic parts, rudiments, elements, or components
of something. Among the ancient Greek philosophers, it designated the four basic and essential elements of which the universe consisted, namely, earth, water, air, and fire. In 2Pe_3:10, 2Pe_3:12 the word carries this meaning. Figuratively it refers to the elements or first principles of the Christian doctrine (Heb_5:12). Paul calls the ceremonial ordinances of the Mosaic Law worldly elements (Gal_4:3; Col_2:8, Col_2:20). In Gal_4:9 he calls them weak and poor elements when contrasted with the great realities to which they were designed to lead. These elements contain the rudiments of the knowledge of Christ. The Law, as a school-master, was to bring the Jews to this knowledge (Gal_3:24).-"Word Study Dictionary" Spiros Zodhiates
Elements
stoicheion (G4747), used in the plural, primarily signifies any first things from which others in a series, or a composite whole take their rise; the word denotes "an element, first principle" (from stoichos, "a row, rank, series"; cf. the verb stoicheo, "to walk or march in rank"; see WALK); it was used of the letters of the alphabet, as elements of speech. In the NT it is used of (a) the substance of the material world, 2Pe_3:10, 2Pe_3:12; (b) the delusive speculations of gentile cults and of Jewish theories, treated as elementary principles, "the rudiments of the world," Col_2:8, spoken of as "philosophy and vain deceit"; these were presented as superior to faith in Christ; at Colosse the worship of angels, mentioned in Col_2:18, is explicable by the supposition, held by both Jews and Gentiles in that district, that the constellations were either themselves animated heavenly beings, or were governed by them; (c) the rudimentary principles of religion, Jewish or Gentile, also described as "the rudiments of the world," Col_2:20, and as "weak and beggarly rudiments," Gal_4:3, Gal_4:9, RV, constituting a yoke of bondage; (d) the "elementary" principles (the A.B.C.) of the OT, as a revelation from God, Heb_5:12, RV, "rudiments," lit., "the rudiments of the beginning of the oracles of God," such as are taught to spiritual babes. See PRINCIPLES, RUDIMENTS.-"Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Terms"
στοιχεῖον
stoicheion
Thayer Definition:
1) any first thing, from which the others belonging to some series or composite whole take their rise, an element, first principal
1a) the letters of the alphabet as the elements of speech, not however the written characters, but the spoken sounds
1b) the elements from which all things have come, the material causes of the universe
1c) the heavenly bodies, either as parts of the heavens or (as others think) because in them the elements of man, life and destiny were supposed to reside
1d) the elements, rudiments, primary and fundamental principles of any art, science, or discipline
1d1) i.e. of mathematics, Euclid’s geometry
-"Thayer's Greek Definitions"
